Anyone growing a garden this year?

[BAMAWV]

[Terrie1959]

Great pictures. My garden was much smaller.  Here are a couple of pictures. We had to keep cleaning out those leaves.. darn tree wouldn't stop dropping

[Terrie1959]

[BAMAWV]

HALF RUNNER GREEN BEANS: You have to string 'em before cooking but that is really not my problem. It is worth the extra effort in flavor. Above is the closest picture I could find like my green bean teepee. By time to pick, you can take two 5 gallon bucket inside the teepee and pick in the shade. The beans dangle straight down from the foliage at eye level for easy picking. Sit on one bucket and fill the other with God's bounty.

There are other techniques, but years ago I dug a post hole, and sank a 4"x4"x8' treated post. I drove a large nail on top of the post. Each year I tie a 5-6' string to the post and draw a circle about 5' from the post. I then drive stakes, 1 per 12"-16", around the circumference.  I then plant HALF RUNNER BEAN seeds about every 6" to 8" around the circle. As the plants begin to grow tendrils (for climbing), I run a teepee of string. Start from the top of the post, pull your string to the stake, wrap and back to the nail on top. Keep repeating, but leave youself a "door".

Easy, convenient, space conserving, and "yard art" for the garden. Mine looks far more attractive than the picture above (to the gardeners eye). I also plant cucumbers (from plants) and zuchini inside the circle. The cucumbers will mature before the beans, and the shade from the growing bean climbers, will maybe extend your cucumber/zuchini season. Yields 100 qts. of HALF RUNNER green beans. Again, trust me. 

[Terrie1959]

HALF RUNNER GREEN BEANS: You have to string 'em before cooking but that is really not my problem. It is worth the extra effort in flavor. Above is the closest picture I could find like my green bean teepee. By time to pick, you can take two 5 gallon bucket inside the teepee and pick in the shade. The beans dangle straight down from the foliage at eye level for easy picking. Sit on one bucket and fill the other with God's bounty.

There are other techniques, but years ago I dug a post hole, and sank a 4"x4"x8' treated post. I drove a large nail on top of the post. Each year I tie a 5-6' string to the post and draw a circle about 5' from the post. I then drive stakes, 1 per 12"-16", around the circumference.  I then plant HALF RUNNER BEAN seeds about every 6" to 8" around the circle. As the plants begin to grow tendrils (for climbing), I run a teepee of string. Start from the top of the post, pull your string to the stake, wrap and back to the nail on top. Keep repeating, but leave youself a "door".

Easy, convenient, space conserving, and "yard art" for the garden. Mine looks far more attractive than the picture above (to the gardeners eye). I also plant cucumbers (from plants) and zuchini inside the circle. The cucumbers will mature before the beans, and the shade from the growing bean climbers, will maybe extend your cucumber/zuchini season. Yields 100 qts. of HALF RUNNER green beans. Again, trust me. 

Thanks for this. We may try to do this also.  Would be enough to can for us to last a while.
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[BAMAWV]

Horse trough for watering the garden.



I put a couple of these in the garden. I fill them with the hose, but not before adding a 5 gallon bucket or two of rabbit manure. The water warms in the sun, which is much better than shocking plants with cold well water. The rabbit manure in the trough allows you to feed as you water. I use five gallon buckets to water the garden plants. Allows you to water deeply to assure the roots get saturated. Manure tea. Trust me--huge tip.

[BAMAWV]

HALF RUNNER GREEN BEANS: You have to string 'em before cooking but that is really not my problem. It is worth the extra effort in flavor. Above is the closest picture I could find like my green bean teepee. By time to pick, you can take two 5 gallon bucket inside the teepee and pick in the shade. The beans dangle straight down from the foliage at eye level for easy picking. Sit on one bucket and fill the other with God's bounty.

There are other techniques, but years ago I dug a post hole, and sank a 4"x4"x8' treated post. I drove a large nail on top of the post. Each year I tie a 5-6' string to the post and draw a circle about 5' from the post. I then drive stakes, 1 per 12"-16", around the circumference.  I then plant HALF RUNNER BEAN seeds about every 6" to 8" around the circle. As the plants begin to grow tendrils (for climbing), I run a teepee of string. Start from the top of the post, pull your string to the stake, wrap and back to the nail on top. Keep repeating, but leave youself a "door".

Easy, convenient, space conserving, and "yard art" for the garden. Mine looks far more attractive than the picture above (to the gardeners eye). I also plant cucumbers (from plants) and zuchini inside the circle. The cucumbers will mature before the beans, and the shade from the growing bean climbers, will maybe extend your cucumber/zuchini season. Yields 100 qts. of HALF RUNNER green beans. Again, trust me. 

Thanks for this. We may try to do this also.  Would be enough to can for us to last a while.
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[Allie]

This is where the garden will be....

[pmull]

Right now it is a better spot for a pool than a garden.

[ricky023]

Good luck with your garden this year. RTR!

[Allie]

That is where I keep telling them we should put the cement pond.  :
 

Last year we had close to 14o tomatoes, 10 or 12 rows of corn, 4 rows of okra, waayyyy too many squash and cucumbers, peas, butterbeans, string beans, red bell peppers, yellow bell peppers, orange bell peppers, hot peppers, banana peppers...

I'm sure I'm leaving something out.

Confession:  "they" had all that.  Since a 5'8'' rattlesnake was killed a few feet from the garden I don't get it it once the plants are too big for me to see the ground.
I'm only 5'3'' ...  scared me too death.

[Terrie1959]

That is where I keep telling them we should put the cement pond.  :
 

Last year we had close to 14o tomatoes, 10 or 12 rows of corn, 4 rows of okra, waayyyy too many squash and cucumbers, peas, butterbeans, string beans, red bell peppers, yellow bell peppers, orange bell peppers, hot peppers, banana peppers...

I'm sure I'm leaving something out.

Confession:  "they" had all that.  Since a 5'8'' rattlesnake was killed a few feet from the garden I don't get it it once the plants are too big for me to see the ground.
I'm only 5'3'' ...  scared me too death.

I wouldn't enter it either. No way, no how! me + snakes = panic

You guys have a huge garden.  that'd be too much for us to do.

I'm jealous of the corn and butterbeans!! Our purple bell peppers didn't grow very big at all. they weren't even baseball size. I tried red, green and purple. only the green grew even close to normal size.

[BAMAWV]

That is where I keep telling them we should put the cement pond.  :
 

Last year we had close to 14o tomatoes, 10 or 12 rows of corn, 4 rows of okra, waayyyy too many squash and cucumbers, peas, butterbeans, string beans, red bell peppers, yellow bell peppers, orange bell peppers, hot peppers, banana peppers...

I'm sure I'm leaving something out.

Confession:  "they" had all that.  Since a 5'8'' rattlesnake was killed a few feet from the garden I don't get it it once the plants are too big for me to see the ground.
I'm only 5'3'' ...  scared me too death.

I wouldn't enter it either. No way, no how! me + snakes = panic

You guys have a huge garden.  that'd be too much for us to do.

I'm jealous of the corn and butterbeans!! Our purple bell peppers didn't grow very big at all. they weren't even baseball size. I tried red, green and purple. only the green grew even close to normal size.

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[Terrie1959]

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where would I find them?

[BAMAWV]

California Wonders
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where would I find them?
[/quote] Lowe's, Wal Mart, garden centers.

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